John Burnside Quotes

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

At the end of the 1990s, we decided we should invest our best efforts to work in a sustainable way with the ingredients that the Amazon produces.

Taking care of our families isn't just about putting food on the table today. It's about ensuring that our children and grandchildren will have a habitable world where they can get to know various species of sea turtles.

People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct.

I think the nomads really give us inspiration about how we can live in harmony with our environment.

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

As we look to the future, we cannot improve our living standards while simultaneously degrading the natural environment around us.

You want to live in harmony with nature and with each other.

The way a human can coexist with nature has to be at the spiritual level.

Trivially speaking, ecological awareness means realising that beings are interconnected in some way, but then we have to figure out what this interconnection actually means.

Each generation is trusted with protecting our open spaces and natural resources to pass them on to future Americans to enjoy.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days.

I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.

I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well without ever giving a thought to the sulfur cycle or wetland functions. Only when the benefits nature provides are disrupted do we take notice.